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From The Wall Street Journal WARREN, Mich. -- Stan Sheyn, a white student who attends community college in this working-class Detroit suburb, supports Barack Obama for president. But he has no time for what he calls "double standards and propagation of victim mentality." "The fact that a black man can run for the position of the President of the United States of America only corroborates that there is enough opportunity and equality for great things like that to happen," he s

From The Wall Street Journal FARMINGTON, Conn. -- Jennifer Glickman, a 17-year-old high school junior, gets so stressed some days from overwork and lack of sleep that she feels sick to her stomach and gets painful headaches. A straight-A student, she recently announced at a college preparatory meeting with her mother and guidance counselor that she doesn't want to apply to Princeton and the other Ivy League schools that her counselor thinks she could get into. "My mom wants m

From The Wall Street Journal DURHAM, N.C. -- Walking into his "Race and Politics" class recently, David Sparks, a white Duke University political-science graduate student, considered whether to move from his usual seat in the group of white students who always clustered at one end of the seminar table to sit with the black students who typically sat at the other end. Mr. Sparks didn't do it. "It would have felt too conspicuous," he says. Still, on Tuesday's primary here, Mr.

From The Wall Street Journal ELGIN, S.C. -- Briana Parker, a 17-year-old African-American, drives her Honda every Wednesday from her suburban home here to the local Barack Obama headquarters to work the phone banks. Already accepted at six colleges, the high-school senior finds Mr. Obama an inspiration. "He reminds me that I can go and do things that others said I couldn't do," says Ms. Parker, who plans to double major at college and become a physical therapist. Seventeen mi

From The Wall Street Journal Portland, Maine Isaiah Oliver, a 24-year-old white social worker, grew up in this overwhelmingly white city and attended the predominantly white University of Richmond in Virginia. Ask him why he supports Barack Obama and he says it's because of the candidate's race. "Because he's black it makes me want to believe that he will change things," says Mr. Oliver, leaving an Obama campaign rally here. "It feels like you are part of something that's sta

From The Wall Street Journal Even in a hip-hop world, there comes a time when every boy needs a suit. Like most 13-year-olds, my son Ben usually wears jeans and a T-shirt, occasionally alternating with basketball warm-up pants and a T-shirt or, for summer occasions, shorts. And a T-shirt. But suits still make the young man -- whether the occasion is a confirmation, a wedding, or a high-school graduation. And when it comes to buying that first suit, it's often dads who supervi

From The Wall Street Journal BEIJING -- It took the Boston Red Sox 86 years to win a world championship. It took me flying 34 hours and 13,468 miles to see them. It all started with an e-mail sent by a Boston friend in the eighth inning of Game 7 of the American League Championship Series with the New York Yankees, with the Red Sox on the verge of going to the World Series. For several years until we moved to Beijing in 2002, our families shared season tickets at Fenway Park

From Commentary A great deal has been written on black-Jewish relations, but, perhaps surprisingly, we still do not have a really good history of the topic. It seems that for historians the better part of wisdom has been either to let this emotion-laden story alone or to engage it in carefully controlled images, of which the most common has been that of two minorities both of whom have suffered tragically at the hands of dominant authority and hence have joined together in a

From The Washington Post BROKEN ALLIANCE The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America By Jonathan Kaufman Scribner's. 311 pp. $19.95 THE NAME-CALLING between blacks and Jews in America has reached a climax. Following such recent excesses as former Chicago mayoral aide Steve Cokely's attack on Jews for spreading AIDs among black children, New York Mayor Ed Koch's statement that Jews would be "crazy" to vote for Jesse Jackson, and an L.A. public relations firm's call

From The New York Times BROKEN ALLIANCE The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America. By Jonathan Kaufman. 311 pp. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $19.95. That blacks and Jews in America differ on many issues does not, in itself, seem very remarkable; what is remarkable is the importance that these differences are given and the way they are used by each group to goad the other. In Mayor Koch's attacks on Jesse Jackson in this year's New York Presidential primary,